History of Theatre Assignment 1. Two characters from two different plays from the ones we have read (see below) 2. Two plays in general (see below)

5-7 pages- TYPED, TIMES NEW ROMAN, DOUBLE SPACED, 12 FONT, MLA FORMAT

CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING PLAYS:

Oedipus Rex, Lysistrata, The Menaechmi, Everyman, The Second Shepherd’s Play,
Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Tartuffe, A Servant to Two Masters, She Stoops to Conquer, The
Importance of Being Earnest

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Culture and Conflict Assignment
Choose one of the following topics and discuss how cultures caused or resolved their conflicts
1) Jews vs Babylonians @ 600 – 500 BCE
2) Egyptians vs Hittites @ 1274 – 1259 BCE
3) Romans vs Carthaginians @ 264 -146 BCE
4) Greeks vs Persians – 490 – 442 BCE
5) Huns vs Romans @ 420-460 CE
6) Akhenaten vs Egyptian Religious establishment @ 1353 – 1336 BCE)
7) Roman mos maiorum vs. Pan-hellenism (ideologies during Roman imperial period) @ 100 BCE –
300 CE
8) Trojans vs Greeks @ 1260 – 1240 BCE
9) Achaeans (Mycenaeans) vs Minoans @ 1500-1300 BCE
10) Athens vs Sparta @ 431 – 404 BCE
11) Marius vs Sulla (1 st Roman Civil War) 88-82 BCE
12) Any conflict between cultures prior to 500 CE (with teacher approval)

Instructions
Answer the following questions in numerical format (#1-7). 2-3 pages.
All work must be properly cited and unless otherwise noted; do not include pure opinion.
1) Outline the basic history of the event(s). You can use a timeline or write it out.
2) How do the culture’s values relate to the conflict?
3) How do the cultures beliefs relate to values?
4) How did ways of communication and identity relate to the conflict?
5) What were the basic causes of the conflict? History of Theatre Assignment
6) Was the conflict resolved, if so how? If no, why not?
7) In what ways, directly or indirectly, did these conflicts influence ideas, values and beliefs in
contemporary America?

1) Outline the basic history of the event(s). You can use a timeline or write it out.
2) How do the culture’s values relate to the conflict?
3) How do the cultures beliefs relate to values?
4) How did ways of communication and identity relate to the conflict?
5) What were the basic causes of the conflict?
6) Was the conflict resolved, if so how? If no, why not?
7) In what ways, directly or indirectly, did these conflicts influence ideas, values and beliefs in
contemporary America? History of Theatre Assignment

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